A Course In Miracles

"For me this was not just another book. This was my personal teacher, my path out of hell."
- Marianne Williamson, Author "Return To Love"

"Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God."

The purpose of the course is for us to discover our internal teacher. It emphasizes application and experience. The course is a series of lessons, each has a certain energy to impart.

The course does not aim at teaching the meaning of love, for that is beyond what can be taught. It does aim, however, at removing the blocks to the awareness of love's presence, which is your natural inheritance.

Introduction
(Exerpt from A Course In Miracles introduction)

This is a course in miracles. It is a required course. Only the time you take it is voluntary. Free will does not mean that you can establish the curriculum. It means only that you can elect what you want to take at a given time.

The exercises are very simple. They do not require a great deal of time, and it does not matter where you do them. They need no preparation. The training period is one year. There are two main sections, the first dealing with the undoing of the way you see now, and the second with the acquisition of true perception.

The overall aim of the exercises is to increase your ability to extend the ideas you will be practicing to include everything. This will require no effort on your part. The exercises themselves meet the conditions necessary for this kind of transfer.

Some of the ideas the workbook presents you will find hard to believe, & others may seem to be quite startling. This does not matter. You are merely asked to apply the ideas as you are directed to do. You are not asked to judge them at all. You are asked only to use them. It is their use that will give them meaning to you & will show you that they are true.

Remember only this: You need not believe the ideas, you need not acceopt them, and you need not even welcome them. Some of them you may actively resist. None of this will matter, or decrease their efficacy. But do not allow yourself to make exceptions in applying the ideas the workbook contains, and whatever your reactions to the ideas may be, use them. Nothing more than that is required.